དག་བ་དང་མ་དག་བའ་ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་སྨན་པ་བསྟན་པའ་མད 10

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they will be reborn as pigeons, sparrows, yellow birds,¹³⁸ parrots, blue-necked birds,¹³⁹ fish, turtles, monkeys, pigs,¹⁴⁰ or deer;¹⁴¹ even if they are born as humans, they will be reborn as persons labeled as paṇḍakas, women, persons with double gender, persons with no gender, persons with mixed genders, and the like.¹⁴² All those who have great anger will be reborn as vipers, lions, tigers, wolves, bears, grizzlies, cats, falcons, and so forth;¹⁴³ even if they attain a human body, they will be inclined to kill birds and pigs, and they will become huntsmen or prison guards.¹⁴⁴ The ignorant who cannot distinguish between virtue and nonvirtue will be reborn as elephants, pigs, oxen, sheep, buffalo, lice, fleas, bees, swallows, ants, and the like in their next life;¹⁴⁵ even if they attain a human body, they will be reborn deaf, blind, mute, with goiters, hunchbacked, and so forth. Their limbs or sense faculties will be impaired, and thus they will be unable to persevere in the Dharma.

“Those who are arrogant and haughty will be reborn as filth maggots, camels, donkeys, dogs, horses, and the like in their next life; even if they attain a human body, they will be born as slaves. They will end up destitute and begging as everyone insults and condemns them.¹⁴⁶ Those who drive others into servitude by abusing their power and who steal their wealth will fall into the hell of śālmalī trees in their next life; there, they will be slaughtered and devoured by eighty million different beings.¹⁴⁷ Those who dislike rising for others will be reborn with the body of a cow in their next life; with rigid limbs and not knowing how to lie down, they will be unable to sleep.¹⁴⁸ Those who make an evening snack out of feast offerings in this life will become hungry ghosts in their next life;¹⁴⁹ they will be unable to find any food and drink for billions of years,